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That whole article smacks of the same kind of cultural indoctrination good old Catholic Ireland was firing at kids. I remember the last years of it in my own schooling, the Father Trendy speaking mostly bollocks in conforting tones and getting the more easily led kids to back them up, and of course the same "the kids don't question nearly so much as adults" that religions often come up with. Of course they don't, they're kids. The Jesuit line of give me the boy and I'll give you the man springs to mind. Well maybe in this case give me the boy and I'll give you the woman.

And like that indoctrination he's spouting more than a few instances of nonsense. EG It’s a scientific classification and apart from about 1.7% of the global population, (around the same number of people born with red hair) who have biological traits of both sexes. Nope. For a start most don't have "biological traces of both sexes". That's bollocks right there. The 1.7 percent number regualrly trotted out by the Trans lobby has been widely questioned and debunked, though they keep on spouting it. Note too how it's framed like red hair to "normalise" it. Oh well we all know people with red hair... The figure for actual Intersex folks in the population is more like 0.2-0.3.

The other problem for the gender fluid lobby is that the overwhelming majority of Intersex people aren't Trans and the overwhelming majority of Trans people are 100% biologically either male or female. Bringing Intersex folks into their frame is really not the win they think it is. Then again just like gender to these eejits, facts are also "fluid". So we have gender that is both innate and deeply felt regardless of one's wedding tackle, yet fluid regardless of one's wedding tackle, based on Patriarchal concepts of men and women that are also constructs so don’t really exist anyway. Schrodinger's bollocks.

"Historically, in western society, there were just two genders" Ahh yes, let's frame the big bad West for being so rigid. Standard operational procedure for the Right On. They reserve much of their ire for the same Western socities that actually give far more rights and respect to people who are different than pretty much any out there. Slight problem there too though, the vast majority of all societies across the world and throughout history had only two genders. It's not just a "Western" thing. Not even close.

Of course he then rattles out the worn out catechism of The Patriarchy(TM) at the end just like a good little adherent of the faith. Mostly bollocks here too and note the kids tell him it is, but of no matter let's all join hands and pray away the realities.

The existed for thousands of years angle is also extremely dubious and far more about framing the past and past cultures through our own terribly fashionable and current lens. So we have a character like Hatshepsut, a female Egyptian Pharoah and a bloody good one too, who after her husband went to the big pyramid in the sky took over and because of the cultures attitude to women aped male aspects in her representations to legitimise her reign. Now of course she was actually Trans according to some loolahs. Find a woman's skeleton in a prehistoric grave with grave goods more like the men's, or a man's skeleton found with what could be women's grave goods? Yep, Trans. The same kind of loolahs who wind up thinking Cleopatra of the Ptolemy's was Black. It;s far more about cultural lenses and current identity politics. Some cultures had Two Spirit type individuals, men who were more feminine, women who were more masculine. Others didn't and if they found someone like that were often less than gracious about them or their continued existence. Pick your poison. Interestingly long before the very current Trans trend the same long dead folks and cultures were painted as Gay people, or cultures that were OK with being Gay. Brain scans have been similarly hijacked by the Trans lobby. (Tiny)study finds more Trans people have areas of the brain more like their preferred gender! Yeah and so do more Gay folks. Does this mean being Gay means you're Trans? Might come as a shock to Gay people. Much larger studies appear to show differences are not nearly so stark and not so linked to either one's sexuality or gender.

I know a fair few Gay men and women who grew up in Catholic Ireland and didn't catch the Hetero, so I do know that. It's a stupid non argument on your part anyway.

Trans is another matter however. There have been a few studies looking into the role social contagion and peer intrractions play in teenaged kids, particularly girls in coming out as Trans. To the degree it's been described as "Rapid onset gender dysphoria" with concommitant negative trends in mental health and parent/child relationships. Never mind that 62% had previously presented with underlying mental health and developmental disabilities, being on the autism spectrum the most common by far. So a child already feeling "uncomfortable in their own skin", on top of the usual adolescent stuff, on top of being on the spectrum and maybe Gay is being told by authority figures like teachers and reinforced by social media that they're Trans. Now that would be all fine and dandy to a point, if it wasn't being treated in medical interventions with hormones and even surgery. That's something they can't "grow out of" or indeed into.